Why Is Europe More Equal Than the United States?

Sure, you probably can't come up with a metric that quantifies the whole of human experience, but picking any of those is going to be better than picking a metric that is completely unrelated to quality of life!

Why is "judge a man not by the color of his skin but by the content of his character" misleading? It sounds pretty clear to me.

He also said "Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." and "Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!" and "I am convinced that men hate each other because they fear each other. They fear each other because they don’t know each other, and they don’t know each other because they don’t communicate with each other, and they don’t communicate with each other because they are separated from each other"

The race debate (You're either with us or against us!) as it stands in the USA today would have MLK rolling in his grave.

> Why is "judge a man not by the color of his skin but by the content of his character" misleading? It sounds pretty clear to me.

It's 100% clear in the sense that it's the one quote that people who don't want to hear about racism love. And isn't it perfect that it comes from the most admired anti-racist in US history? It's perfect for that and that's why it's super widespread.

It's also a complete travesty of Martin Luther King's thoughts to laser focus on this one quote.

Martin Luther King was describing an ideal society in the far future that looks nothing like our messy present.

Do you think Martin Luther King purpose in life is fairly summarized by "Hey we have talked too much about racism already" ?

Why then did he bother to be so hated, to go in prison, march so many miles, ...?

If that makes no sense it's because it does.

Here is another Martin Luther King's quote

> Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shores, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or to feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it

https://nativenewsonline.net/opinion/dr-martin-luther-king-j...

Private universities in and of itself is a bizarre idea. These institutions give out degrees recognized by governments which correspond to the legal competence to practice law or to perform surgery.

As far as I know, there is no such thing as a “private university” where I live. All educational facilities receive funding from the government, and are beholden to it's standards and rules.

Even apart from that, a private company cannot legally here hire people because their parents worked there first. – That is illegal employment discrimination.

It very often seems legal to do in the U.S.A. what is illegal discrimination almost everywhere else. Except of course when it concerns their almighty “protected classes”, because then it suddenly matters, though it's of course woefully ineffective, a system where one can be fired for any reason including no reason, but not for, say, skin color. It makes it very easy to find another reason, or just no reason.

If I were to be terminated, they have to give me the reason and be transparent with the books so that I can easily show in court that though they claimed I was fired for performance, others who performed worse, were strangely not. — Such is how matters are done in normal, civilized, industrialized countries.

> It's also a complete travesty of Martin Luther King's thoughts to laser focus on this one quote.

I didn't laser focus on this one quote, my previous reply includes several other quotes of his. Perhaps it is a complete travesty of his thoughts to ignore something he said in what is his most famous speech?

> Martin Luther King was describing an ideal society in the far future that looks nothing like our messy present.

Indeed, a future where his children "will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." But as I said in my previous reply, the race debate as it stands in our "messy present" does the opposite of this.

> Do you think Martin Luther King purpose in life is fairly summarized by "Hey we have talked too much about racism already" ?

Where did I say that? I'm talking to you about racism now.

> "even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or to feel remorse for this shameful episode"

Unfortunately MLK didn't live to see Obama become president, Michael Jordan dominate the NBA, or Lizzo playing James Madison's crystal flute.

Another MLK quote from his book "Why We Can't Wait":

> "Lamentably, it is a historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups tend to be more immoral than individuals."

Note he says nothing about race here. This quote has more to do with "pretax and posttax income inequality" than race does. Reducing inequality to racism is naive at best.